Ash-sifter.



E. J. BLASS.

ASH SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED mum. 1914.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915'.

ASH-SIFTER.

Specificationof Letters iiatent. i v

Application filed April 18, 1-914. Serial No. 832,792.

To all whom it may concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Portage, in the county of Columbia, and

5 State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ash Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved dustless ash sifter for use in the ash pit of a furnace or stove to receive the ashes discharged from the grate when the latter is shaken andfor sifting the ashes while the device is in place in the ash pit and in a manner that prevents the dust from being dispersed, the object of 1.5 the invention being to provide an improved sifter of this character which is extremely cheap and simple, is strong and durable and which serves the purposes both of an ash pan and of a sifter and by means of which ashes may be sifted and the cinders returned to the fire without soiling the shoes or clothing of the user and without dispersing dust through the air.

The invention consists in the construction,

combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ash sifter constructed in accordance with my invention with the handle of the same shown in extended position in full lines and in folded or retracted position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of my im proved sifter showing the same in place in the ash pit of a furnace. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same.

My improved ash sifter comprises aframe 1 which is box like, of oblong rectangular form and provided with square or rounded corners, the frame thus forming a pair of side walls 2, an inner or rear end wall 3 and a front end wall 4. The frame is preferably made of galvanized iron and is formed with upper and lower outstanding reinforcing flanges 5-6. The upper side of the frame is open. The bottom is formed by a screen 7 which is made of suitable mesh wire. An arched aXleS, which in practice is an iron rod, is arranged transversely under the frame and secured thereto at a point somewhat out of the center of the frame and nearer its rear end than its front end. The

' downturned arms 9 of the axle are provided Be it known that I, EDWIN J. BLAss, av

with outwardly extending spindles 10 on which are mounted supporting wheels or rollers 11. At the front end of the frame is a centrallylocated supporting foot or stand ard 12 which coacts with the axle and wheels to support the sifter in an elevated, horizontal position, a few inches above the bottom of each of the ash pits of a furnace or stove, as indicated in Fig. 2. The dimensions of the sifter are such as to enable it to fit in the ash pit and yet be readily moved therein and taken out therefrom when desired. In practice the sifter will be of any suitable size. The front wa1l4= of the union. I

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sifter is also provided at its upper side with.

a medially arranged inwardly extending horizontal bracket arm 13 on which is pivoted the inner. end of a handle 14, as at 15. Thereby the handle may be extended outw'ardly from the sifter or may be folded transversely over the front wall of the sifter as shown.

My improved sifter is normally arranged in the ash pit, below the grate, and with the handle in folded or retracted position so that the ash pit door can be closed. When the grate is shaken the ashes drop from the fire directly into the sifter. The ash pit door is then opened, the handle grasped and drawn outwardly and used to slightly elevate the front end of the sifter and to move the sifter back and forth on the bottom of the ash pit, the supporting wheels or rollers 11 greatly facilitating such movement of the sifter, and such movement suiiicing to separate the ashes from the cinders so that the ashes drop through the screen bottom of the sifteron to the bottom of the ash pit while the cinders remain in the sifter and without further handling may be dumped from the sifter back into the fire. By thus providing for the sifting of the ashes in the ash pit the sifting operation is'made practically dustless so that the hands, clothing and shoes of the user are not soiled.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The herein described ash sifter for use in the ash pit of aqfurnace or stove and comprising a frame aving a supporting leg at one end and also provided at said end with g I l,165,875

' a pivotally attached handle adapted to be other end of the frame and supporting swung outwardly from and also swung in- Wheels on said axle. 10 wardly over the sifter, a screen attached 'to In testimony whereof I affix my signature the lower side of said frame, an arched axle in presence of two Witnesses.

at a point intermediate the ends of the frame EDWIN J BLASS. and secured under the same, saidaxle being Witnesses:

approximately near the center of the frame A. L. VOUTMANN,

but farther from the leg than from the MILLIE M. CALL.

Games 02 this patent may be obtained for five eents each, by addressing the Commissii-ner cf Washington, D. G. 

